How is anybody disenfranchised if everybody still gets to go to a school? Oh - that's right: it's a standard term that must be used in this situation - like the term "racism".
wow! i hope to see good things come of this... i expect to... how pathetic of the 41 percent who are not in agreement with doing away with all the traditional public schools in the district... just who do they think should remain in those cesspools?
parents have absolutely NO control in government schools... everything is mandated by the CENTRAL government... public education has ceased being public education a long time ago... it is government education...
“They don’t answer to anyone,” said Sean Johnson, the dean of students at Banneker, whose father attended the school while growing up in the Black Pearl neighborhood. “The charters have money and want to make more money. They have their own boards, make their own rules, accept who they want and put out who they want to put out.”
this is a benefit to the schools and students... they do not have to answer to the ridiculous bureaucracy that is government school... they can get to the business of learning...
The illiterates love those old failed schools that employed the unemployable and taught absolutely nothing but survival. Texas schools that accepted Katrina refugees were shocked at how far behind these students were. But there were some good football players in the group, so that was a plus.
Recently, in New Orleans, I saw many neatly dressed students, of all ages, getting on and off the City transit system. We passed schools with very high fencing. We didn’t understand what was going on there. How wonderful for the citizens of the city for the children to be learning and graduating at tremendous rates.
May NO be a light that shines for others to see!